Henry Miller, (1891-1980), American writer Quotes
Remorse is impotence; it will sin again. Only repentance is strong -- it can end everything.
Like ships, men flounder time and time again.
The only peace, the only security, is in fulfillment.
Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines -- these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm.
We create our fate every day... Most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.
The only thing we can never get enough of is love. And the only thing we never give enough of is love.
Sin, guilt, neurosis -- they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.
No one asks you to throw Mozart out of the window. Keep Mozart. Cherish him. Keep Moses too and Buddha and Lao Tzu and Christ. Keep them in your heart. But make room for the others, the coming ones, the ones who are already scratching on the windowpanes.
There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself, it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it, we are at once enslaved by him.
It is the American vice, the democratic disease, which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.